On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Marissa, Aliyya and Patrick about the state’s abysmal maternal mortality rate, its crisis in special education, and Gov. Greg Abbott’s beef with a Houston state legislator.
Emily Ramshaw
Emily Ramshaw was the editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune from 2016 to 2020. During her tenure, the Tribune — billed “one of the nonprofit news sector’s runaway success stories” — won a Peabody Award, several national Murrow Awards and top honors from the Online News Association.
Before joining the Tribune in 2010 as one of its founding reporters, Ramshaw spent six years at The Dallas Morning News, where she broke national stories about sexual abuse inside Texas’ youth lock-ups, reported from inside a West Texas polygamist compound and uncovered “fight clubs” inside state institutions for the disabled. The Texas APME named Ramshaw its 2008 star reporter of the year. In 2016, she was named to the board of the Pulitzer Prizes.
A native of Washington, D.C., and the product of two journalist parents, Ramshaw graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with dual degrees in journalism and American history.
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Castro’s PAC, an early Cruz poll (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Ross about Julian Castro’s new PAC and potential presidential ambitions — and a Ted Cruz poll showing him out in front of Beto O’Rourke.
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The top Texas tales of 2017 (podcast)
On the final TribCast of 2017, Emily talks to Alexa, Neena, Jay and Edgar about some of the Trib’s biggest stories of the year: the bathroom bill, Hurricane Harvey, the TABC scandal and our series on child sex trafficking.
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2017 Year in Review
The top 10 Texas Tribune reads of 2017
Looking to catch up on your reading this holiday season? You’ve come to the right place. Here, in no particular order, are our curated picks: the top Texas Tribune storytelling of 2017.
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Health care
Texas, feds agree to renew Medicaid funds for safety net hospitals
With a Republican in the White House, top Texas leaders have reached an agreement with the federal government to keep Medicaid money flowing into Texas to help hospitals treat uninsured patients.
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Drama at the Facilities Commission, Farenthold off the GOP ballot, McRaven departing UT System (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross, Jay and Patrick about Harvey Hilderbran’s troubled tenure at the Texas Facilities Commission, the Texas GOP’s efforts to keep Blake Farenthold off the 2018 ballot and Chancellor Bill McRaven’s decision to leave the UT System.
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T-Squared: A new partnership with Folo Media
Starting next month, our investigative reporter Morgan Smith will produce deep-dive enterprise journalism on poverty and inequity for the Trib and Folo Media, a new San Antonio-based nonprofit newsroom focused on issues of inequality.
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T-Squared: Three new hires and a breaking news editor
The Texas Tribune is a lean and mean operation. So it’s not every day you get to announce three — yes, three! — phenomenal new hires, plus one great promotion.
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An Alabama Senate shake-up, a Bush-Patterson faceoff and a border land grab project (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick, Kiah and former (and aspiring) Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson about Roy Moore’s defeat in Alabama, Patterson’s attempt to unseat George P. Bush and a soon-to-land reporting project called “The Taking.”
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Valdez running for governor, Farenthold giving back sexual harassment cash (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross, Patrick and special guest Trey Martinez Fischer about Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez’s gubernatorial aspirations and Congressman Blake Farenthold’s decision to pay taxpayers back for his $84,000 sexual harassment settlement.
